Garment hanger



Jan. 2, 1940. KLElN 2,185,253

GARMENT HANGER Filed Aug. 1, 1938 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 2,1940 UNETED STATES PAT-EN? GEFICE GARMENT HANGER Irving Klein, New York,

N. Y., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Patent Novelties Inc., New

This invention relates generally to improvements in garment hangers andparticularly to a new and improved type of garment hanger includingmeans for holding both coat and trouser portions of mens clothing.

It is among the objects of the present invention to provide acombination coat and trouser hanger whereby more than one pair oftrousers can be supported on the same hanger together with a suit coator the like in a manner at least not tending to wrinkle the garments.

An important advantage of the new and improved garment hanger, accordingto the instant invention, is that the parts thereof are relativelysimple both from the standpoint of structure and of manufacture.Accordingly the hanger can have a long and useful life, and can bemanufactured at relatively low cost inasmuch as the elements comprisingthe hanger are well suited to the requirements of mass production.

A feature of the garment hanger, according to the present invention, isits rugged construction which permits it to be subjected to roughhandling and usage without appreciable likelihood of breaking ordislocation of the elements thereof.

Other objects, advantages and features of this novel and improvedgarment hanger according to the present invention will be apparent tothose skilled in the art during the course of the following description.

Regarded in certain of its broader aspects the novel garment hangeraccording to the present invention comprises, in combination, supportedanticlinal garment receiving arms having a spreader and brace elementattached to the free end portions thereof and provided with a trouserreceiving member positioned beneath said spreader and brace and disposedin spaced parallelism relative thereto.

In order to facilitate a fuller and more complete understanding of thematter of the present invention certain specific embodiments thereofwill be hereinafter described, it being clearly understood however thatthese embodiments are provided solely by way of example and arenonlimitative except as expressed in the subjoined claim.

Figure l is substantially a front elevational View of one form of thecombination coat and trouser hanger according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional View of Figure 1 taken along line 2-2.

Figure 3 is substantially a fragmentary front 1938, Serial No. 222,558

elevational view of a modified form of the garment hanger according tothe present invention.

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view of Figure 3 taken along the line 4i.

Referring now to the drawing:

Figures 1 and 2 show a hanger member generally designated by the numeralIt comprising essentially block like portion I! attached to the shank [2of the supporting hook i3 and carrying downwardly dependent anticlinalarms [4, l5, disposed in a common plane. A horizontally positionedspreader and brace element l6 substantially fixedly securedin openingsin the free end portions ll, l8, of the arms [4, l5, respectively servesto hold said arms in anticlinal position and to reduce stresses andstrains in the structure.

The downwardly projecting mounting brackets 25, 2!, passing throughopenings formed in the spreader it, are received and fixedly secured inopenings formed in end portions IT, l8, of the arms It, IS,respectively, substantially as shown. It is to be noted that'the endportions 22, 23, of the brackets 2B, 2!, serve to inhibit dislocation ofthe end portions thereof from the arm end portions ll, l8.

Each of the supporting members 20, 2|, is bent substantially as shown inFigure 2. It is to be noted that each of the mounting members is bent ata right angle as designated at 25 and at a second right angle asdesignated at 26, whereby end portions 21 of each of said portionsextends in a plane disposed in spaced parallel relationship relative tothe plane including the end portions 22 and 23 of the portions 20 and2|. The free ends of portions 2i 2!, are bent to position them inco-axially aligned opposed relationship essentially as shown in Figure1.

An essentially cylindrical trouser carrier 28 carried on the opposed endportions 29 of the members 20 and 2!, is disposed essentially inparallel spaced relationship relative both to the element l6 and to theplane defined by said element and the anticlinal arms i4, i5. It will beevident that trousers positioned on the spacer member l6 and dependenttherefrom will not interfere with or be interfered with by trousersdependent from the carrier 28. It is further to be noted that a coat orthe like received on the arms H1, Hi, can be disposed around saiddependent pairs of trousers Without interfering therewith.

Referring now particularly to Figures 3 and 4 wherein a modified form ofthe garment hanger according to the present invention is illustrated itwill be understood that supported anticlinal arms for receiving a suitcoat or like garment are provided together with a spreader ashereinabove described.

The structural difference between the two embodiments shown in thepresent invention rests in the manner of attaching the second trousersupporting member to the hanger. Referring then to these embodimentswhich, it is to be understood, are illustrations of one end of thehanger, the other end being the mere image thereof, the free arm endportion, 30 connected with an end portion of the spreader or braceelement 3! carrying a downwardly bracket 32 essentially as shown. Thebracket 32 as looped around a portion of the spreader or brace elements3! is essentially fixedly secured in an opening formed in the endportion 39 of one of the dependent arms. It Will be evident that thelooped portion 34 of said member 32 precludes unseating of the endportion 33 from engagement with the arm end. Member 32 is bent outwardlyand downwardly essentially asshown in Figures 3 and 4, whereby thesecond trouser carrier 36 mounted on the bent end portion 37 of member32 is disposed in spaced parallelism relative; both to the spreader andbrace element 3! and to the plane defined by the garment receiving armsand spreader. In use it will be understood that two pairs of trousersand a coat can be carried on this hanger in substantially the samemanner as was described in connection with the hereinbefore referredembodiment of this invention: that is to say, one pair of trousers canbe received on spreader element 3| and a second pair can be carried onmember 36 and the suit coat or similar garment positioned around theanticlinal arms of the hanger.

It is to be understood of course, that this improvement in garmenthangers is capable of extended application and is not confined to theprecise embodiments and proportions shown, and, therefore, such changesand modifications may be made therein as do not affect the spirit of theinvention nor exceed the scope of the claim.

What is claimed is:

A garment hanger comprising a vertically positionable hook-likesupporting member; downwardly dependent, anticlinal garment-receivingarms, extending in a common plane, carried on parts of said hook; ahorizontal spreader and brace element substantially fixedly secured inopenings formed in free ends of said arms; down- WarIdly projectingmounting members, looped around portions of said horizontal element andreceived in openings in said arms, the free ends of said mountingmembers being disposed in coaxially aligned opposed relationship; and anessentially cylindrical garment carrier engaging with and mounted onsaid free ends of said members.

IRVING KLEIN.

